Inside Microsoft’s open source program office
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.
10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 12, 2024
Average salary: $174,727 SoC System-on-chip (SoC) skills involve integrated circuit technology with the aim of better compressing data and system components into one piece of silicon. It’s become a vital skill for producing mobile devices and for developing embedded systems, IoT devices, and other consumer products.
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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups
CTOvision
JULY 21, 2015
The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.
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Senkyu: MTN Uganda’s new way to say ‘thank you’ loyalty program
TM Forum
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Rebuilt and expanded customer loyalty program, called Senkyu, to acknowledge customers and drive innovative ways to redeem points, including integration with digital payments, which improves financial inclusivity in Uganda. MTN Senkyu is a unique loyalty program in Uganda and goes beyond typical telco reward schemes. external_url.
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How to incubate a winning innovation program
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2023
This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. In 1994 , his open-source Netscape Navigator browser transformed the difficult-to-navigate world wide web with a user-friendly point-and-click interface. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.
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White hats 'easily' crack a program that controls the world's power grids
TechSpot
APRIL 22, 2022
This open-source communications protocol is used worldwide to connect industrial systems like power grids and other critical infrastructure. At this year's Pwn2Own, security researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade decided to tackle an industrial control software called "OPC UA."
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Lazarus APT Continues to Exploit Log4j Vulnerability
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Log4j is a widely-used open source Java logging library, and the vulnerability allowed threat actors to execute remote code on servers, potentially leading to unauthorized access and data breaches. As part of Operation Blacksmith, Lazarus has introduced three previously unseen malware families written in the DLang programming language.
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Your car is about to go open source
Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones. In Vehicle Infotainment.
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IBM’s CodeNet dataset aims to train AI to tackle programming challenges
Venture Beast
MAY 11, 2021
IBM's Project CodeNet is an effort to spur the development of AI systems that can tackle programming challenges. Read More.
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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems
The Verge
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
When companies are building programs, they often use open-source code written by other people, so they’re not spending time and resources solving a problem that’s already solved. Instead of writing code to do it ourselves, my team found a program that did that and built it into our site.
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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications
CTOvision
DECEMBER 17, 2013
By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. A Milestone – Open Source.
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Empowering Change: Digital Library Solutions for Nonprofits
Kitaboo
MARCH 30, 2024
Top Features of Digital Library Solutions for Non-Profit Organizations Digital Asset Management (DAM) Systems Open-Source Digital Library System Cloud-Based Digital Library System II. From the storage of images, videos, and documents to metadata management, a host of activities are included within the DAM system.
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Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018
Galido
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Information Technology Blog - - Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018 - Information Technology Blog. “Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”…Steve Jobs. If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming.
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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model
Vox
JULY 28, 2023
But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.
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Nokia, Telenor invest to address new enterprise security threats
TM Forum
MAY 25, 2022
As 5G and B2B services for vertical industries start to take deeper root, Nokia and Telenor are among the companies launching new initiatives to protect enterprise systems from emerging security threats. Gartner lists IoT, open-source code, cloud applications and complex digital supply chains. Nokia’s initiative is.
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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2023
Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system. When you click on a search result, the system interprets it as confirmation that the results it has found are correct and uses this information to improve search results in the future. Chatbots work the same way. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0
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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response
CTOvision
APRIL 11, 2014
NGA hopes to reap benefits in innovation, creativity, and the power of a far-reaching community of programmers who approach the development of the program from different perspectives. If they can do open source, any agency can. This allows them to integrate the software into their own visual display systems,” said Bauer.
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Microsoft: Hackers in China, Iran and elsewhere start exploiting widespread Apache Log4j flaws
GeekWire
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Microsoft says groups connected to governments in China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have begun exploiting vulnerabilities in the Apache Software Foundation’s widely used open-source Log4j software library. Hackers can use the software flaws to gain control of compromised computers and systems.
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Learn Big Data Design Patterns in 11 Dec 2014 Webinar
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending. Analysis Big Data Cyber Security DoD and IC Mobile News Open Source Technology News The Future Bigdata Cloudera Intel' Please join us and come ready to ask the hard questions.
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Google Introduces Open Source Bug Bounty Program
SecureWorld News
AUGUST 30, 2022
Google has announced a new bug bounty program called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) , which will pay security researchers for finding flaws in Google's open source projects. The OSS VRP can certainly be a huge help to open source as a whole.
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My API story: Helping CSPs achieve business agility
TM Forum
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
I am an Enterprise Architect at CGI, leading transformation programs to deliver core business and operational systems for Communication Service Providers. At CGI, we help our customers in their digital transformation journey by modernizing legacy systems with purpose-built and future-ready solutions aligned to industry standards.
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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2022
He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000.
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It’s a new dawn of AI-powered knowledge management
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 3, 2023
Systems for sharing information assets across the enterprise have evolved in their sophistication but haven’t been able to take it to the next level by effectively turning the information that resides in digital files into usable knowledge. Now the system provides usable answers to questions.
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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Research from IBM found that 93 percent of companies still use mainframes for financial management, 73 percent for customer transaction systems, and more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies run business-critical applications on mainframes.
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my API story: Helping CSPs achieve business agility?
TM Forum
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
I am an Enterprise Architect at CGI, leading transformation programs to deliver core business and operational systems for Communication Service Providers. At CGI, we help our customers in their digital transformation journey by modernizing legacy systems with purpose-built and future-ready solutions aligned to industry standards.
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An Update on @ForgeRock: This company is quietly transforming the entire stack of enterprise identity management, access control and authorization capabilities
CTOvision
JANUARY 8, 2014
If you are a program manager, systems architect, software engineers or CIO/CTO/CISO you should really be tracking what this very virtuous firm is doing. Our solutions are delivered to you through a simple Open Identity Stack used to build reusable and efficient business processes and controls.
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 19, 2024
A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered. I think I’ve linked to Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source newsletter” before; it’s such a useful resource. pertaining to administrative credentials. This looks interesting.
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What Are Security Guardrails? Why Do They Matter to Your AppSec Program?
SecureWorld News
MAY 19, 2022
Meanwhile, legacy AppSec systems and processes have impeded security teams from being able to scale at the speed of DevOps with very little visibility or control over security risks. Security teams are entirely unprepared to govern and secure the modern SDLC in this agile world.
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CTOvision
MARCH 12, 2015
With its efficient use of commodity hardware and its ability to scale linearly, open-source Apache Hadoop is an ideal platform upon which to offload many data processing workloads. Through the use of Hadoop, agencies are able to improve the efficiency of their IT systems, allowing them to retain more of their valuable data for longer.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. I hope you find something useful here! More details are available in this blog post.
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Malware and Antivirus Systems for Linux
Galido
JANUARY 12, 2017
Each computer system may have a malware or viruses, including Linux. It is recommended that users install these antivirus softwares on the Linux operating system that can be downloaded via Internet. In order to better understand antivirus programs, it may be beneficial to firstly understand the malware itself. Linux Viruses.
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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb
CTOvision
JANUARY 18, 2015
Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Opening Keynote. Chief Information Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency. 8:15 – 9:00 AM. 9:00– 9:30 AM.
12 data science certifications that will pay off
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 19, 2024
The exam tests general knowledge of the platform and applies to multiple roles, including administrator, developer, data analyst, data engineer, data scientist, and system architect. It covers programming skills; managing and improving data; transforming, accessing, and manipulating data; and how to work with popular data visualization tools.
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Verizon Business Group transforms customer and partner experience
TM Forum
MARCH 11, 2022
The merged Verizon Business Group (VBG) undertook North Star, a flagship program, to consolidate the Enterprise Architecture (EA) and transform Verizon into a customer-centric organization. The North Star EA program modernized systems, boosted enterprise efficiencies, and ensured scalability.
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Top 8 predictive analytics tools compared
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 12, 2022
The quality of predictions depends primarily on the data that goes into the system — the old slogan from the mainframe years, “garbage in, garbage out”, still holds today. Working with dedicated predictive analytics tools is often relatively easy, at least compared to programming your own tools from scratch. Open Source.
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137 How Open Hybrid Clouds Will Change Cloud Computing
CTOvision
JANUARY 11, 2016
If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development. It has been created by the Defense Information Systems Agency.
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Tech News Roundup April 13
CTOvision
APRIL 13, 2016
Thaddeus Stevens College gets federal grant to increase women in STEM programs - LancasterOnline. DHS warns on cyber risks of open source - FCW.com. IRS systems still vulnerable to cyber criminals - FCW.com. Facebook open-sources its 360-degree camera, aiming to spark boom in VR videos. Awarded $16.8M
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Google’s new Fuchsia OS arrives first on old Nest Hub
The Verge
MAY 25, 2021
Google’s work on Fuchsia OS first emerged in 2016 , and the open-source operating system is notable for not being based on a Linux kernel, instead using a microkernel called Zircon. You don’t ship a new operating system every day, but today is that day,” tweeted a Google technical lead on the Fuchsia OS project, Petr Hosek.
Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player lets you create your own virtual music room
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2020
Magenta is designed to use Google’s machine learning systems for the creation of art and music, and the Lo-Fi Player is a fun example of what it can do. It’s powered by magenta.js, the open source JavaScript API for using Magenta in-browser ( check out DrumBot as another example).
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‘ChatGPT for robots’: Microsoft vets lead new startup that helps create instructions for machines
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The company is led by Ashish Kapoor , who spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as general manager of autonomous systems and robotics research. In the position, he created AirSim , an open-source simulator for drones. For example, customers can use the startup’s platform to program a drone for an inspection mission.
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Meet Our Mayhem Heroes: Raj Shah
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
” As part of the Mayhem Heroes program , ForAllSecure visited various university campuses in the Spring of 2022. At the end of April, ForAllSecure hosted a day-long hackathon at Arizona State University where 181 students participated in the day-long in person training program followed by an online training held soon after.
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Meet The Team Behind Mayhem: Come See Us At These Upcoming June 2023 Events
ForAllSecure
JUNE 7, 2023
Last month, we participated in GlueCon and hosted a webinar on uncovering vulnerabilities in open source software. The CGC tested automatic defensive systems capable of reasoning about flaws, formulating patches and deploying them on a network in real time. Stay tuned! Contact us by June 9 to register for this event.
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Revolution Analytics, A Statistical Software Company, Now Part Of Microsoft
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
When it was announced that Microsoft had acquired Revolution Analytics they underscored their intention to continue to develop the open source and commercial distributions of Revolution R, as well as to "empower enterprises, R developers and data scientists to more easily and cost effectively build applications and analytics solutions at scale".
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This free web tool is a fast and easy way to remove objects from images
The Verge
OCTOBER 25, 2021
You can check out some examples in the gallery below: Cleanup.pictures seems to be from the same team that made a fun augmented reality demo that lets you “copy and paste” the real world , and is open-source (you can find the underlying code here ).
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